socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

We spoke with CEO and founder Matthias Kurwig on the idea behind the startup, and how he's applying his experience as COO of Neo@Ogilvy to his new Santa Monica startup. Big screen TVs and refrigerators can cost you thousands of dollars over the life of those products. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

Viddy , called by many as the new Twitter, but for video, had a #splashmob this weekend at Santa Monica Beach. Some lucky people received awesome iPhone protectors from Life Proof giving them the power to be active and still capture video without cracking the screen.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. Not so fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

One of the hotter topics at the last Silicon Beach Fest (SBF) in Santa Monica was the exodus of homegrown tech talent. For all the technical wizardry on display on movie screens, Hollywood continues to struggle to keep up with the blistering speed of technology and its impact on sales and distribution of digital content.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. If you have content, APPLY to screen your < 10 min video made in the past year.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. . • Circle Street – Circle Street was founded by Alex Nocifera who’s first company was Ripple TV.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The swanky little boutique suite on Santa Monica’s Main Street greeted me in a way that I hadn’t expected. The feel of the unit was very much like its predecessor, the PSP, with a wide body, glossy black surface, and wide screen. Sony’s LiveArea interface was definitely designed for the social gamer in mind.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. Solaborate is a professional social media network. So where do you see social media going in the future? LB: I think social media has done a very good job in the consumer market.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Buying GumGum is similar to the way traditional media is bought but with a different execution. Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company. They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. GumGum’s goals.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. mt) Media Temple, Inc. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2012

It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. And writers!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY. Let me use LA as an example.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. mt) Media Temple, Inc. The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. The TrueCar L.E.D. now to September 10.

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